Artificial Flavouring
Artificial Flavouring appears in 29 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Artificial Flavouring appears in 29 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 29
- catalogued products
- #7,222
- usage rank of 247,206
- 20
- named brands represented
- 70%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Artificial Flavouring: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,222 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,222
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 199 others that also appear in exactly 29 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 70%
- Averaged label depth puts Artificial Flavouring in the lower half of the list (70% of list length, mean slot 13.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 6.9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Artificial Flavouring spans 20 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Amul Fruit 'N' Nut Fantasy; Caramel; Cream Wafers when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
20 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 29 of 29 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Artificial Flavouring
Products Containing Artificial Flavouring
16 busy labels from the 29 indexed products that list Artificial Flavouring:
Artificial Flavouring vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Artificial Flavouring: 29 products, mean screening score 98.6/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Artificial Flavouring evidence
Start from Artificial Flavouring's 29 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Artificial Flavouring before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Artificial Flavouring — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Artificial Flavouring? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Artificial Flavouring, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#7,222 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Artificial Flavouring? ▼
Artificial Flavouring ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,222 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Artificial Flavouring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Artificial Flavouring appears in 29 products (#7,222 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Artificial Flavouring). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.